Articles

Taiwan Needs World’s Support to Defend its Sovereignty

Like the South China Sea, the Taiwan Straits is another flashpoint in the Indo-Pacific region. Both have the China factor where it is flexing its military muscle. While in the South China Sea, it is in conflict with some other Asian countries which m....

July 12, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , South China Sea , BRI , Joe Biden , Mao Zedong , Taiwan Straits , THAAD , Peter Dutton , flashpoint , ‘One-China Policy’ , Chang Kai-shek , TAEPIE Act , A2/AD capabilities , Pacific Command , Aegis Ashore.

China’s Communist Party Revises its History yet again in time for use by Xi Jinping

Jayadeva Ranade Article

History and the power of the narrative have always been important to authoritarian regimes. Communist regimes have elevated their importance by using them to indoctrinate entire generations with sanitised versions of events authorised by those in pow....

April 29, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , Xi Jinping , CCP , Cultural Revolution , Deng Xiaoping , Mao Zedong , Great Leap Forward , Tiananmen Square

Quick Glimpse into China’s Upcoming Annual ‘Big Two Sessions’

Jayadeva Ranade Article

With just a couple of weeks to go before China’s ‘Big Two’ -- the popular name for the plenary sessions of China’s version of a parliament, the National People’s Congress (NPC) and the top political advisory body, the Chinese People’s Pol....

March 01, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , NPC , CPC , technology , Xi Jinping , CPPCC , Made in China , Huawei , food grain shortage , Long Term Goals 2035 , Mao Zedong , personality cult , PLA deputies